by Neil Donnelly Walking towards the Golf club, sun beating on the Old Head of Kinsale; at the Sentry Box, between a limp tricolor and a stars n’ stripes, a…
Christina Bouey, Rhiannon Banerdt, Oskar Espina Ruiz, Grace Ho, Georgina Isabel Rossi by Kevin T McEneaney Sunday’s afternoon event at Music Mountain was preceded by a talk by Darlene Kascak,…
James Bagwell and Chorale by Kevin T McEneaney Summerscape, the annual musical festival at Bard College, has its focus on Vaughan Williams, an important composer whose works are not often…
Hans Pålsson at the Steinway in Newbridge, Ireland by Kevin T McEneaney Hans Pålsson, Sweden’s most famous and beloved pianist, is one of this globe’s most accomplished and famous pianists…
after Joachim du Bellay by Kevin T McEneaney In Iceland there’s no shortage of lava while the ocean offers plenty of salt. Combine these two common ingredients: one arrives…
by Kevin T McEneaney On a sunny hilltop day with nearly any humidity, the world-class American String Quartet, based at the Manhattan School of Music, opened with String Quarter in…
by Bill Schlesinger With the increasing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), several readers have asked me to evaluate the net benefit of EVs for the mitigation of climate change. I…
by Kevin T McEneaney When it’s too darn hot to do anything, even think about what could, should, be done, then one might doze off in the brutal heat, only…
by Bill Schlesinger "Too Darn Hot," Cole Porter, 1948 In 1992, then Senator Al Gore hosted an informational hearing on climate change, where I was honored to participate. One of…
Jeremy Bell, Jerzy Kaplanek, Katie Schlaikjer, Christine Vlajk, Anya Alexeyev by Kevin T. McEneaney The concert was preceded by a fifteen-minute film, The Odyssey of a piano prodigy from Holocaust…